Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclamation of martial law last Saturday, Governor Quinn declares that Narragansett Park and all the surrounding territory in Pawtucket within a radius of one mile is "in a state of insurrection." This conclusion rests on the following findings of fact...
...Martial Law Serious...
...establishment of martial law under the conditions here stated permitted by the Constitutions of Rhode Island and the United States? Martial law is a very serious interference with the ordinary privileges of American citizens. Once it is established, they can no longer come and go freely upon a portion of the soil of the United States. They are hindered in the ordinary enjoyment of their property. They are accountable for all their actions within the proclaimed territory, not to judges and juries, but to generals, corporals, and privates. If they disobey military orders, they can probably be tried by court...
Because of all those restraints on freedom a conscientious Executive will regard martial law as only a last resort. If the civil courts are open, state officials can ordinarlly obtain there abundant help in the maintenance of order, for instance, an injunction at the suit of the Attorney-General against the public nuisance caused by the assemblage of a large number of disorderly persons in connection with a prize fight or horse race...
...legislature has vested in an administrative tribunal the control and regulation of a particular business, respect for law and order normally requires the subject to cross-examination. When a governor attempts to settled a controversy by martial law, he is acting as the prosecutor, judge, and jury all by himself, and employing methods for the maintenance of order which may be even more dangerous to private citizens than the activities of the persons whom the governor is attempting to suppress...